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Conversations with Madeleine L'Engle (Paperback)
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Conversations with Madeleine L'Engle (Paperback)
Series: Literary Conversations Series
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Conversations with Madeleine L'Engle is the first collection of
interviews with the beloved children's book author best known for
her 1962 Newbery Award-winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time. However,
Madeleine L'Engle's accomplishments as a writer spread far beyond
children's literature. Beginning her career as a literary novelist
for adults, L'Engle (1918-2007) continued to write fiction for both
young and old long after A Wrinkle in Time. In her sixties, she
published personal memoirs and devotional texts that explored her
relationship with religion. At the time of her death, L'Engle was
mourned by fans of her children's books and the larger Christian
community. L'Engle's books, as well as her life, were often marked
by contradictions. A consummate storyteller, L'Engle carefully
crafted and performed a public self-image via her interviews.
Weaving through the documentable facts in these interviews are
partial lies, misdirections, and wish-fulfillment fantasies. But,
when read against her fictions, these ""truths"" can help us see
L'Engle more deeply-what she wanted for herself and for her
children, what she believed about good and evil, and what she
thought was the right way and the wrong way to be a family-than if
she had been able to articulate the truth more directly. The
thirteen interviews collected here reveal an amazing feat of
authorial self-fashioning, as L'Engle transformed from novelist to
children's author to Christian writer and attempted to craft a
public persona that would speak to each of these different
audiences in meaningful, yet not painfully revealing, ways.
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